Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > From a legal perspective I will point out that any e-mail you > receive is (at least in the US, but most other countries too) > considered copyrighted by the sender. Under copyright law the > sender has the right to control expiration of content they create, > the movie houses are doing this with digital copies that are > time-limited and included with blue-ray disc purchases. Thus if > a corporation suddenly has e-mail disappearing from it's servers > due to expiration dates inserted by the e-mail creator they are > absolutely protected from a legal point of view - because of the > demands of copyright law.
I guess this means places like gmane.org and marc.info are in gross violation of all kinds of copyrights. As well as anyone keeping email-archives (e.g. for legals reasons). Regardless, copyright is not the same everywhere. Far from it. The Urheberrecht in e.g. Germany and Switzerland is quite different. I doubt if anyone here would be able to claim Urheberrecht for an email. /Per Jessen, Zürich
